Periodical cicadas are an odd marvel of nature. This year, the biggest brood of all is coming out in the U.S. South while another emerges in the Midwest.

Cats are getting — and dying of — bird flu. That’s sparking worries about the risk that the ongoing outbreak of highly pathogenic H5N1 avian influenza poses for these feline furballs and their owners.

Though 'Tmesipteris oblanceolata' is just 15 centimeters long, its genome dwarfs humans’ by more than 50 times.

The salty water, just 3.6 degrees Celsius above the ice’s melting point, is undermining the foundation of the Antarctic glacier.

Made of heavy relatives of the electron, the exotic atoms could be used to test the theory of quantum electrodynamics.

Reinforcement learning techniques could be the keys to integrating robots — who use machine learning to output more than words — into the real world.

Even for the children who get treatment, malnutrition can lead to a lifetime of consequences. Those include a high chance of dying in the year after recovery, stunted growth and a reduced ability to ...

Models from Predictive Science Inc. forecasted the appearance of the sun’s corona during the April eclipse to better understand our star.

Smalltooth sawfish develop their signature, long, tooth-lined snout while still in the womb. The needle-sharp teeth are encased in a specialized sheath that prevents the rays from cutting up their ...

Both he and the study authors agree that Venus could currently have as much volcanic activity as Earth. NASA’s DAVINCI and VERITAS probes, expected to launch next decade, will map the Venusian surface ...

An experiment studying the neutrino’s “wave packet” sets a limit on the uncertainty of the subatomic particle’s position.

Hundreds, not thousands, occupied the Turkish site of Çatalhöyük nearly 9,000 years ago, undermining arguments for a Neolithic social revolution.